Copied text doesn't indent

[HelenaL]

When I copy&paste text into indesign it doesn't indent the first line left indent after every enter but just the first one. I can go back and retype every enter, but there must be another way.

[Steve Werner]

InDesign version? Operating system? Copying text from another InDesign file? (Or from another program? Formatted or unformatted?)

A screen capture would be helpful.

[HelenaL]

InDesign CC, MacOS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Copying text from an ePUB

[Scott Falkner]

Are you pasting text from another application? Does the indented paragraph use a different paragraph style from the unindented paragraph? Does the definition for the indented style use the Next Style attribute to call the non-indented style?

[Migintosh]

I would add "turn on the non-printing characters and see if there is a tab or a run of spaces at the front of the indented paragraph."

[Scott Falkner]

Migintosh wrote:

I would add "turn on the non-printing characters and see if there is a tab or a run of spaces at the front of the indented paragraph."

Good advice. Any screen capture to show a problem, especially involving text, should show frame edges and hidden characters.

[Barb Binder]

Will you please repost the screen cap after choosing Type > Show Hidden Characters?

[HelenaL]

[Scott Falkner · Accepted solution]

Well there’s your problem. You have forced line breaks, not carriage returns, between paragraphs. The text is behaving as it should, since it is just one paragraph.

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